@RonFilipkowski 1).
„The price of car insurance has accelerated in recent years: In 2025, the average cost of a full coverage policy is $2,638 a year, according to Bankrate [1] data, or about $220 a month.

That’s 12% higher than it was in 2024 and over 50% more than in 2020 [2].”

Nov. 1, 2025

@RonFilipkowski 2).
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[2] @CNBC cnbc.com/select/average…

@RonFilipkowski @Bankrate @CNBC Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance 𓃠

@evanbirnholz @evanbirnholz First, thank you for your praise for what we’ve done @amuselabs. It’s been a pleasure for us to support your incredibly creative and challenging crosswords for @washingtonpost. I hear your disappointment, but I hope you’ll let me share a different perspective.

@evanbirnholz @AmuseLabs @washingtonpost 2/Our AI puzzle maker goes back to the roots of @amuselabs. We wanted to democratize the creation of knowledge games, to make it easy for people to create word games based on their passions, interests and expertise and enable them to share the games with others.

@evanbirnholz @AmuseLabs @washingtonpost 3/Our @amuselabs AI Puzzle maker is just a user interface layer on what was already possible using our PuzzleMe software. It's not mean for experts like you. We will continue to provide our powerful creation tool for experts like you.

Look, folks - the American Establishment has known how profitable the heroin trade is since the 1830's...

wbur.org/news/2017/07/3…

FDR's grandfather made his fortune from it. It funded the Industrial Revolution in America.

Hundreds of thousands of wounded Civil War veterans suddenly needed TONS of opium after that war.

So it should surprise nobody that the OSS would trade opium for weapons and cash with

the Kuomintang Army in the Golden Triangle. And the top people at the OSS became the top people at the CIA. And they used that trade to crush the Bolsheviks around the world and to grow that network.

And to distribute the heroin, they work with Mafias such as the KremlinMafia

It's all public, all available for reading. Yes, Virginia, the CIAMafia runs a giant heroin/cocaine trafficking network around the world.

This CIAMafia has been in place since the 30's, and went nuclear with the creation of the CIA in 1947. Allen Dulles was the point man

https://twitter.com/toxictiramisu/status/1988388449892933764

to make it happen. The RWers that worked with the Nazis thru the 30's and 40's were now firmly in control of an agency they created at the heart of the US fed govt.

Those RWers were Prescott Bush and the Walkers and the DuPonts and the Rockefellers and Henry Ford, among

others. And they were going to crush the Bolsheviks worldwide and secretly run the US govt, no matter who was in Congress or the White House.

JFK learned of their plans and they gunned him down.

They adopted the ideas of Dzerzhinsky's "Operation Trust" and created a

Here's some good news for BlueSCSI/ZuluSCSI owners who want wireless networking in DOS and Win3.1x: Michael Brutman (author of mTCP) has taken my DaynaPORT DOS packet driver and greatly improved it! I'm using it to browse the web. Let's talk about how in a 🧵 here!

First, some context: several months ago, I started down the path to get my BlueSCSI working in DOS, and made a very alpha driver to do such. As per usual, I then abandoned the project 😂

https://x.com/RetroTechChris/status/1931571595996266986

Then, Michael found out about the project, and greatly improved upon it! There is a beta version that you can find here: . Although the driver is currently beta, it is very well written, and is working great for me!github.com/mbbrutman/dayn…

"NEW FLU VIRUS MUTATION could see WORST SEASON in a DECADE"

Insights for understanding SARS-COV-2 (1st part) 🤔
Thanks to @mryoung151
for the article bbc.com/news/articles/…

2) Let's start with an overview of this article.
A newly mutated H3N2 influenza virus strain has emerged unexpectedly during summer, raising concerns about a potentially severe flu season, possibly the worst in a decade.

3) This strain's mutations, linked to an antigenic shift, enable it to evade existing immunity and increase its spread, with an estimated R of 1.4. Though the current flu vaccine may offer limited protection, health officials emphasize the importance of antiviral treatments and..

Russia is running out of money!

Russia faces seven consecutive years of high budget deficit (over 2%) — streak unseen since 1999, with 2025 deficit projected at 2.6% of GDP and government abandoning goal of keeping it below 1% — The Kyiv Independent. 1/

Economist Benjamin Hilgenstock says 2026 deficit projection of 1.6% is wishful thinking — deficit of 2-3% of GDP is a lot for Russia since it doesn't have access to financing like normal countries. 2/

Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov admitted in August profitability of production remains low, and somewhere even zero, if not negative, leaving not too many funds for development. 3/

Fr Charles Coughlin- A True American Catholic Legend of the 20th Century.

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Early Life.

A Genuine Proponent of Peace

I had a total blast testing my newly-acquired fleet of LTE 5000 series systems! Over the past four days, I was able to make 20 working systems from my haul of (I believe) 26 systems. Let's have a BRIEF outbrief in a 🧵 here!

First, just LOOK at everything!! Everything you see here either will go in a system (HDD, FDD, CD-ROMs, battery shells), is a spare part, or a conversation piece (PCMCIA cards without dongles 😂). And, oh, for the six systems that contributed to parts, look at all of the screws!

Here are the "failed" parts. Several failed or flaky mobos. Two bad processor cards. Several bad DC to DC cards. Only one bad FDD, which is miraculous. And of course, that one keyboard that took a lot of abuse, too much to repair.

A lot of followers responded to my sex positive thread about the Internet and young women by asking "what about porn?".

It's a very good question. And I might as well say it-- I think the right wing and feminists have a point about porn as we stand in 2025.

To be clear, "as we stand in 2025" is crucial here. Part of the problem with critiques of pornography is there really was a "crying wolf" phenomenon. The religious right, after all, opposed Henry Miller novels and tried to ban the shipment of dildos under the Comstock Act.

And the religious right and feminists like Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin equivalenced girly magazines in the 1970's and 1980's with rape.

The critiques were really over the top.

But... the porn industry decided to spend the last 30 years proving their critics right.

I agree with all the points Tim is making here, but I also do think the relative price shifts and skewed technological progress are making everyone a bit crazy because a large fraction of the increased prosperity since 1995 takes the form of more digital entertainment.

https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1988319957692903542

If you took a 2025 person and subjected them to 1995 levels of phones, low-def linear television, FM radio and buying CDs, movies on VCR etc they would find it awful.

But also sitting at home, alone watching YouTube is not living the good life.

slowboring.com/p/more-streami…

30 years ago there was enormous, totally sincere optimism about the internet and the potential for an “information superhighway” to change the world for the better and it’s largely turned out to just be supercharged television-watching.

slowboring.com/p/more-streami…

List of Places to See All Over Paraguay 🇵🇾

Thread 🧵

1. Asunción – The Capital Vibe 🇵🇾
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🕺 Nightlife: Paseo Carmelitas, Morgan Warehouse, D’lirio
🚶 Streets to wander: Palma Street, Av. Mariscal López
🍸 Bars: JazzCube, Pub Britannia, Brasserie Palo Santo
🏛️ Museums:
• Museo del Barro
• Casa de la Independencia
• Museo del Cabildo
• Gran Hotel del Paraguay
• Museo de la Estación Central
• Mythical Museum Ramón Elías
🛍️ Shopping: Paseo La Galería, Shopping del Sol
🏰 Historic: Palacio de López, National Pantheon, Catedral de Asunción, Edificio Capasa, Iglesia de la Encarnación
🌳 Outdoor: Costanera, Plaza Infante Rivarola, Plaza de los Desaparecidos, Plaza Uruguaya, Mercado 4, Loma San Jerónimo
🐒 Nature: Zoo + Botanical Garden
🏨 Iconic hotels: Hotel Guarani, Hotel Excelsior
🍕 Faves: San Rafael Church (with pizzeria), Bar Asu (French-run pool bar), Casa Clari, Negroni Downtown, Skybar, Laserland
🇫🇷 Thin-crust French pizzerias all over
🏖️ Rakiura Resort
✈️ Fly over the city: Book a private plane from Asunción Int’l Airport

2. San Bernardino & Areguá – Weekends & Art Towns 🌞🎨

San Bernardino 🇵🇾
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🌊 Playa La Rotonda, Costa Serena
🛍️ Weekend craft market
🌄 Mirador Bella Vista
🪂 Kynda Drop Zone skydiving school

Areguá 🎨🍓
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🏖️ Beach & strawberry specialties
🪵 Handmade ceramics (Circuito de la Cerámica)
🗿 Geological wonder: Cerro Ko’î
🏰 Castillo Carlota Palmerola
🍽️ Eat at La Estanciaa, Casa Manolo, Amba Café, Rancho Aregua Grill, Casa de Pizza, Altozano
🛍️ Paseo Blanca Lila, Mercadito Bee, Maria Bonita Garden House
⛪ Iglesia la Candelaria with lake views
🛏️ La Escondida, Casa Casaccia

3. Caacupé, Paraguarí, Piribebuy – Pilgrimage & Peace ✝️⛰️

Caacupé 🙏
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⛪ Major pilgrimage town
• Casa Sagrada Familia
• Caacupé Cathedral
• Iglesia Madre del Buen Consejo

Paraguarí ⛰️
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🎖️ Artillery Museum
🌿 Cerro Hu and eco-adventure trails

Piribebuy 🏞️
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💦 Crystal-clear rivers
• Salto Amambay
• Saltos de Piraretã
🏡 Day rentals for swimming with friends
🌴 Park Pinamar
🏖️ Reposo del Yhaguy beach hotel (35,000 PYG/day)